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• Agra

• Aligarh

• Allahabad

• Ambedkar Nagar

• Auraiya

• Azamgarh

• Baghpat

• Bahraich

• Ballia

• Balrampur

• Banda

• Barabanki

• Bareilly

• Basti

• Bijnor

• Budaun

• Bulandshahar

• Chandauli

• Chitrakoot

• Deoria

• Etah

• Etawah

• Faizabad

• Farukkhabad

• Fatehpur

• Firozabad

• Gautam Buddha

• Nagar

• Ghaziabad

• Ghazipur

• Gonda

• Gorakhpur

• Hamirpur

• Hardoi

• Hathras

• Jalaun

• Jaunpur

• Jhansi

• Jyotiba Phoole

• Nagar

• Kannauj

• Kanpur Dehat

• Kanpur Nagar

• Kaushambi

• Kushi Nagar

• (Padrauna)

• Lakhimpur Kheri

• Lalitpur

• Lucknow

• Maharajganj

• Mahoba

• Mainpuri

• Mathura

• MAU

• Meerut

• Mirzapur

• Moradabad

• Muzaffar Nagar

• Pilibhit

• Pratapgarh

• Raebareli

• Rampur

• Saharanpur

• Sant Kabir Nagar

• Sant Ravidas Nagar

• Shahjahanpur

• Shravasti

• Siddharth Nagar

• Sitapur

• Sonbhadra

• Sultanpur

• Unnao

• Varanasi

UTTAR PRADESH

Uttar Pradesh is the rainbow land where the multi-hued Indian Culture has blossomed from times immemorial. Blessed with a varaity of geographical land and many cultural diversities, Uttar Pradesh, has been the area of activity of historical heroes like - Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, Ashoka, Harsha, Akbar and Mahatma Gandhi. Rich and tranquil expanses of meadows, perennial rivers, dense forestsand fertile soil of Uttar Pradesh have contributed numerous golden chapters to the annals of Indian History. Dotted with various holy shrines and piligrim places,full of joyous festivals, it plays an important role in the politics, education, culture, industry, agriculture and tourism of India.

Garlanded by the Ganga and Yamuna. The two pious rivers of Indian mythology, Uttar Pradesh is surrounded by Bihar in the East, Madhya Pradesh in the South, Rajasthan, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana in the west and Uttaranchal in the north and Nepal touch the northern borders of Uttar Pradesh, it assumes strategic importance for Indian defence. Its area of 2,36,286 sq kms. lies between latitude 24 deg to 31 deg and longitude 77 deg to 84 deg East. Area wise it is the fourth largest State of India. In sheer magnitude it is half of the area of France, three times of Portugal, four times of Ireland, seven times of Switzerland, ten times of Belgium and a little bigger than England.

The British East India Company came into contact with the Awadh rulers during the reign of IIIrd Nawab of Awadh. There is no doubt that the history of Uttar Pradesh has run concurrently with the history of the country during and after the British rule, but it is also well-known that the contribution of the people of the State in National Freedom Movement had been significant. .

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